Moris Beracha

By  Moris Beracha Music is an element that can be included into our meditation exercises, because it often has an influence on how we respond to life’s challenges. Pay attention on how we respond mentally, physically and emotionally to different music genres, sounds and rhythms present in our everyday lives is a crucial factor when we practice mindfulness. For some, the sound of birds chirping might offer relaxation, while for others it stimulates irritation. Music alone does wonders for our health and wellness. But if music is combined with mindfulness, we can create more space for healing benefits. It is very easy to incorporate music into your meditation sessions and vice versa. When attending a concert, notice how easy or difficult it is to stay in the present moment. Give yourself 5 minutes to toss on headphones and choose 1 song to listen to that you know will relax you. Find a comfortable sitting or lying posture, close your eyes and listen only to the song alone...

By  Moris Beracha The amount of benefits found by scientists and mindfulness practitioners has been increasingly popular. The Huffington Post reveals the most important findings. We have discovered how mindfulness improves health . Carnegie Mellon University published a study suggesting that ‘mindfulness’ positively influences health via stress reduction pathways. Scientists developed a model to demonstrate that Mindfulness increases activity in the prefrontal cortex of the brain, which is responsible for deliberation and planning and which can regulate the biological stress response. Meditation keeps the brain young . According to studies, Mindfulness practice is not limited to making practitioners feel good, but can keep them young. A study from the University of California, found that meditators’ brains seem to age at a slower pace than those of other people. Meditators showed less age-related reduction of gray matter volume. Gray matter is a layer of tissue critica...

Just as meditation helps us clear our minds of thoughts, fasting is a way we empty our bodies of food and experience a new receptivity. By Moris Beracha In our Western culture fasting is not usually readily accepted unless it is linked to a religious custom in which it becomes a periodic obligation. At the same time, in a world where human beings make an effort to eat better and consume the correct daily calories, stopping eating is not the most regular or recommended habit by specialists. In fact, there is a certain taboo when it comes to undertake it. In fact, fasting has been practiced by many cultures and religions since ancient times. The reason for this practice varies depending on the ritual or goal pursued; however it is always seen as purification or cleansing. But what is fasting for? For centuries, the ascetics and mystics have defined the time of fasting since the first light of day appears and continues until the sunset. For these experts, fasting is the...

We were also struck by the fact that the study -which being a pilot test- openly indicates how in a number of participants a sense of self-empowerment was generated, because they became more assertive, confident and open to take on risks and try new experiences. Moris Beracha Wanted to begin my writings on what we might call my cause or my commitment by talking about what in my opinion has become part of a lifestyle with mindfulness, but I do not want to refer to this form of meditation from Buddhism, but to indicate how it is being used in programs aimed at promoting poverty reduction. This is only the first article within this guidance that I want to give to these writings. In principle let’s start by commenting on some of the personal benefits of mindfulness and I would like to mention those of English psychologist Patrizia Collar in several of her books: greater capacity to calm down, higher levels of energy, less risk of stress, depression or anxiety, more self love...

Mindful meditation connects humans deeply to themselves, to each other, and to life Moris Beracha . Enough examples can show how mindfulness can cause individual and small group changes; but the question is: can you transform societies and build up populations completely committed to respect human rights? The answer is yes, according to PhD Maria Cheung, Professor at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada. We found on the web an interesting article published in a journal by that university entitled: “The intersection between mindfulness and human rights: The case of Falun Gong and its implications for social work.”

The world today has a component that usually takes our lives without our realizing it, making us losing our sense of what we really have to do and enjoy. Moris Beracha.-   The world today has a component that usually takes our lives without our realizing it, making us losing our sense of what we really have to do and enjoy. While I was reading the book “The now effect” by Elisha Goldstein, I found a very simple but useful list that made me think about how much space and time of our lives we ​​lose because we are not in the mindfulness state we need to be able to overcome the day-to-day difficulties, whether physical, psychological or emotional. It only requires that we have a few minutes available to think and gradually internalize some very simple practices that would help us live much more fully. Goldstein recommends in the first place approaching the day-to-day things and facts with curiosity and tasting them, living them. It is useless to ignore the experiences that we f...

When Success is not faced with common sense, it can touch aspects of our ego affecting our perception of reality. By Moris Beracha In some conversations it is common to raise the subject on how to face success. At first this question surprises me because one might think that people's curiosity focuses more on how to deal with pain. Then I understood that success is a desire that all human beings have. You can think of it as the positive culmination of a task or wish come true; the problem begins when success affects our ego. It is very common to see us as humans how well we can cope with problems but it is also common to see how difficult it is for us to deal with success. As it has been said "Nothing corrupts a person more than power" When success is not faced with common sense, it can touch aspects of our ego affecting our perception of reality. Success ascends with power, which is the ability to do things that other people cannot do. ...